If Hope Is Not A Strategy, What Is?
October 23, 2014
Hosted by Gwendolyn D. Galsworth, Ph.D.
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Episode Description
How do you turn your “house” from a pretty poster on the boardroom wall—into a real-time improvement driver? In her on-going series on Visual Leadership/The Executive Function, your host and visual expert, Gwendolyn Galsworth, un-nests the next three elements of her Operations System Improvement Template (OSIT) and a new paradigm of thinking: 1) your company’s overall improvement strategy (there’s only one that counts), 2) the macro metric that tracks the success (or failure) of that strategy, and 3) the strategic principles that anchor the people-side of moving forward. It’s time to turn BORG thinking on its head. As time allows, Gwendolyn explains the next OSIT element: Tactical Targets—and how to determine the most critical to the company’s current need to improve and grow. She encourages all listeners who are visual-leaders-in-the-making to develop their own OSIT Template, in real time, as she explains the elements in each show. Tune in and learn. Questions? Call: 866-472-5790.
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Visual Workplace Radio: Let the Workplace Speak offers the best in practical tools, methods, and strategies for improvement leaders who want to apply workplace visuality and harness its remarkable cultural and bottom line contribution. Visuality: you can’t get to excellence without it.
Each week, award-winning author and foremost visual workplace expert, Dr. Gwendolyn Galsworth, targets new learning and applications through a range of formats, case studies, interviews with business leaders and topic experts.
Whether yours is a factory, hospital, military depot, bank, office or dry cleaners, get informed, get inspired, get visual.
Gwendolyn D. Galsworth, Ph.D.
Gwendolyn D. Galsworth, PhD, is president and founder of Visual Thinking Inc. and The Visual-Lean Institute(r), a training, consulting, and research firm in visual workplace technologies. Over a period of 30 years, Dr. Galsworth has codified the field of visuality into a single coherent framework of thinking and application called the 10-Doorway Model.
In 2005, Dr. Galsworth established the Visual-Lean(r) Institute where in-house and external trainers are licensed in nine core visual workplace courses.
Four of her nine courses are now available as on-line training systems (English/Spanish), with more to come. Galsworth is author of seven books, including two Shingo Prize winners: Visual Workplace/Visual Thinking and Work That Makes Sense, available from her website and Amazon.
Dr. Galsworth began in the 1980s as the head of training/development at Productivity Inc. She worked closely with Dr. Ryuji Fukuda to adapt the CEDAC(r) method for western companies, and with Dr. Shigeo Shingo to develop, among many things, poka-yoke for the West. She was principal developer of Visual Factory, TEIAN (operator-led suggestion systems), and the X-Type Matrix.
A Fellow on the Shingo Institute Faculty and former Baldrige and Shingo Examiners, Galsworth has led study missions to some of the world’s finest companies, including in Japan. Dr. Galsworth lives in New England where she happily works, hikes, and writes.
